Luca Bolognese: C# and VB.NET Co-Evolution - The Twain Shall Meet | Charles

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Das Glasperlenspiel

It's about time Luca was on Channel 9 Wink

Lisa Feigenbaum

Luca mentioned some VB6 resources in this presentation. Here's the site for that information: http://msdn.com/vbrun

vesuvius
Das Glasperlenspiel

I used to be a C++ then C# programmer, but I now make every effort to learn VB as it is just as expressive. I must admit to using a code converter if I'm in a rush, but once you understand selection, iteration,method declaration etc. you do realise that you need to know the BCL and know it well.

Charles
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In reply to Lisa Feigenbaum

#May 13th @ 11:02 AM

Thanks for the link, Lisa. For those of you out there who don't know Lisa, she's a PM on the managed languages team and has been helping us get great language related content here on Channel 9 (like this one with Luca). Thanks again, Lisa!

Up next is a conversation with Luke Hoban on F#. Got any questions for him that you'd like answered? Spin up a thread on the Coffeehouse and I'll make sure some of your F# queries get answered by Luke, who is the PM of F#.

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CKoenig

Luke Hoban on F# ... sure there are questions:

When do we get type classes ?

Daniel Smith

I really don't think keeping the two languages in lock step is a good idea. It’s only going to hinder the advancement of both languages. Having a bit of competition between VB and C# is actually a good thing. For example VB might never have got XML literals if it had to wait on C#. As long as the two languages can access and export the same libraries, I’d rather they had the freedom to explore their own avenues.

As for VB vs. C# usage being 50/50, I don’t think this is the case. I know from some previous surveys the results have been skewed due to Office VBA “developers” (hehehe) taking part in the surveys. Regardless, all the surveys I’ve seen recently are pointing to massive declines in VB usage and increases for C#. For example, in one recent poll of developer language preferences for future projects, C# outnumbers VB by 3 to 1. Plus the survey was conducted on a VB focused site, so the figures are probably being quite kind to poor old VB!

http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable/archive/2009/04/02/msdn-poll-april-8th-2009-what-language-would-you-like.aspx

-Dan

Mulbs

I hope this means that the glass ceiling will finally get removed from vb.net and we can use unsafe code and pointers the same as in C#. Time and time again I've needed these features.

M.

Joiseystud

This guy looks like an Italian Scott Gu... good video. I also like the PDC video he did.

http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL11/

TheLibyanGuy

Hi Luca

Last year I watched your "LINQ to SQL" presentation , and was impressed with the technology .. and started to use it ..

Sadly "Linq to SQL" seams to be going down the drain and is being replaced with "Linq to Entities" ..

Why can't such a concept as "co-evolution" exist for both technologies ??

Noting that both technologies are a subset of either C# or VB .. Now if MS cannot keep both technologies ( i.e. LINQ2SQL & LINQ2Entities ) co-evolve .. then how would C# and VB could possibly co-evolve !!!

Just wondering !! Wink